one of the greatest football teams in the NCAA. in what's accepted as the modern era of the sport (1945 - )the sooners currently hold the record for the most wins and have the highest winning percentage of any team.

Refers to the Oklahoma Land Run of 1889 when settlers, seeking free land, made their way to Oklahoma to stake their claim to tracts of open territory. One of the few rules to claiming a lot of land was that all participants were to start at the same time, on the boom of a cannon. All settlers who started then were labeled as "Boomers" and the ones who sneaked in ahead of time were called "Sooners."

The University of Oklahoma named its athletic teams the Sooners in 1908 to pay homage to the cheating claim jumpers of the land rush. The nickname proved fitting as, over the years, Sooner athleteic teams have been the object of many NCAA penalties stemming from repeated violations of a variety of rules, particularly under the ignominious reign of football coach Barry Switzer when the already outlaw program sunk to outrageous lows.

Those are some low-down, cheating bastards.
What do you expect, they're sooners.

A whining individual who cannot accept an outcome that does not go their way. One who will not stop bitching until even those that were on their side wish that the Sooner would just shut up. Other synonyms include whiner, crybaby, embarassment to football.

The Sooners lost to Oregon and haven't stopped complaining since. Perhaps they should pay more attention to the salary their starting quarterback receives at a car dealership (severe cheating) and less attention to a couple of miscalls.